Monday, March 3, 2008

It does seem like there have been a lot fewer "nice happy cute" romantic comics and an awful lot more "everything about relationships is saaaad" comics recently, no? The ones that don't even try to be meaningful? And they tend to feature people named Megan a lot, no?

So what do we see? Like with the memes, these started out very rare but are now quite frequent. The first 250 comics saw 7 of this type, the next 250 saw 16, 13 of which were in the last 100. If anyone wants to do further quantifying here, I'd love to see a chart of sad-relationship comics over time (basically this list) compared to happy-relationship comics over time. I suspect they are about inversely proportional. In any case, I worry about Randy. His work seems so...sad.

Oh awesome. Thanks Jay. The only one I disagree with is 443. I guess is does fit in the category technically (it does, after all, explicitly say their relationship is strained) but somehow it doesn't have the same emo annoying quality as the rest. I don't know, I guess I have to think more about it.

This is seriously one of the dumbest posts I've seen. How can you be infuriated about romantic comics on a webcomic that is "romance, sarcasm, math, and language?" There's no foundation for your complaints.

Megan-questioning Anon: It seems that any time Randall mentions a name for a female character, her name is Megan. I haven't done the listing/research on this but a lot of people have noticed, and the suspicion is that Randy has an ex girlfriend named/called (I say 'called' because he could have just assigned her this name at random) Megan that he hasn't quite got over, and so he writes about her all the time and tries to slip references into his Illustrated Picture Blog.

I'm honestly more inclined to assume he just likes the name, but Randall is exactly the type of person who has that one ex he never really got over. (This is not an insult; I know several people who have this trait and they are just fine.)

Incidentally, is there a term for that? I feel like there must be one. A romantic figure that continues to haunt someone. At least some literary or mythological reference. I'm drawing a blank.

Just got into this site and all I can think is "man, if u dont like it, dont read it". Its not like someone is forcing you to it.Put all the effort of this site on something useful, and maybe someday you'll get someone to say that your work sucks too.

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Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.

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